What was instructive in their defeat to a Gloucester side still in the assembly process was that some of the new recruits have yet to be imbued with traditional Leicester virtues, such as fighting for lost causes.
But Pakistan's triumph over South Africa was a seminal moment, Sri Lanka's embarrassment of Australia instructive, and West Indies' defeat of India exhilarating.
Republicans might not have selected such a candidate, had the nominating process not changed from an open primary, in which lots of people vote, to a party convention, where the impassioned few who showed up were able to get their man.Despite the instructive nature of this defeat, the lesson has yet to be learned.
The adoption of comprehensive reform of communications provides an instructive comparison with the earlier defeat of comprehensive reform of health care.
For two millennia they had been considered to be mythological larks, while the Greek and Roman friezes depicting the Amazons' defeats were thought to be instructive that women could never successfully rebel against men.
It is not just the bare facts of the results that feel instructive, either, but the nature of them, with Chelsea's perfectly executed defeat of Atlético Madrid and Tottenham's artful dismantling of Borussia Dortmund the twin peaks.
"The methods of defeating or deterring covert action in the 1960s and 1970s can still be instructive to the United States' current enemies," a C.I.A. official wrote in a court filing.
Thus, as Sherry Buchanan notes in an instructive catalog essay, while "art to serve the people" became the official dogma after the the French defeat in 1954, some artists continued to paint and draw in a more Impressionistic French style.
The 31-year-old is a survivor of defeats at Exeter, Kidderminster and Oxford, yet memories of his days in the bottom league have proved instructive.
